MCS-022 Operating System Concepts and Networking Solved Assignment 2018-2019

Course Code : MCS-022
Course Title : Operating System Concepts and Networking
Management
Assignment Number : BCA (6)-022/Assignment/2018-19
Maximum Marks : 100
Weightage : 25%
Last Date of Submission : 15th October, 2018 (For July, 2018 Session)
15th April, 2019 (For January, 2019 Session)

This assignment has eight questions of 10 marks each. Answer all questions. Rest
20 marks are for viva voce. You may use illustrations and diagrams to enhance
the explanations. Please go through the guidelines regarding assignments given
in the Programme Guide for the format of presentation. Answer of each part of
the question should be confined to about 300 words.

Question 1: (a) Write the purpose of VPN and name the VPN technologies supported
by Windows 2000. (5 Marks)
(b) List the main contents of Password files and where are they located
in Windows? Also, explain the concept of Shadow passwords?
(5 Marks)
Question 2: (a) Compare the role and responsibilities of user mode and kernel mode
of Windows 2000 system. (5 Marks)
(b) List the important components of domain name server. Also, explain
how the domain name server is configured in LINUX operating
system. (5 Marks)
Question 3: Discuss the Users’ Administration in WINDOWS 2000. What are the
different types of user groups supported by Windows 2000? Discuss the
scope and limitations of each group. Also, list the tools available in
Windows2000 for user management. (10 Marks)
Question 4: (a) Discuss the tasks performed by LinuxConf package. (5 Marks)
(b) Explain the advantages and disadvantages of different LAN
topologies. (5 Marks)
Question 5: (a) Explain the role and importance of following tools for quota
management in Linux:
 quotacheck
 repquota
 quota
(6 Marks)
(b) Compare the security features/mechanism of Windows2000 and
Linux operating systems. (4 Marks)
Question 6: (a) Why is the audit view limited to specific users only in windows
2000? (5 Marks)
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(b) Explain the purpose and features of registry management. Also,
explain the uses of it. (5 Marks)
Question 7: Write a shell script that searches the file contents in a directory and its
sub-directories for a text string given by the user. It list all such file
names having that given string and store in a temp file “example_dir”
(10 Marks)
Question 8: (a) What is backup? What are the strategies followed in Linux for
backup? (5 Marks)
(b) What encryption function is used by Windows 2000 operating
system?